Kim Hart of POLITICO writes (quote):

"FCC Chairman and friend-of-the-president Julius Genachowski may not have killed AT&T’s hopes of buying T-Mobile on Tuesday. But he sent an unmistakable message: It’s going to be a cold day in hell before the Obama administration approves anything like what the company proposed."

"Genachowski announced Tuesday he intends to put the AT&T/T-Mobile deal through a long and excruciatingly expensive administrative hearing — after the companies get through the long and excruciatingly expensive court case the Department of Justice has already lined up"